Jay Morgan President | Morehead State University
Jay Morgan President | Morehead State University
Overall, basketball teams in the county received a total of $2,669,592, with the women’s team receiving $1,124,472.
Since 2010, the average sports expenses in Rowan County have grown 37.2%.
Basketball is one of the most popular sports played at U.S. colleges, as well as football. NCAA basketball teams are often as popular as NBA teams, and offer a different experience for fans.
In 2022, after a decades-long fight, student-athletes nationwide gained the right to profit from their names, likenesses, and images as a result of a flurry of new state laws and an NCAA policy change.
The basketball fund received around 168.57 million dollars from NCAA revenue in 2020–21.
Year | Basketball team's expenditures | % from grand total sport team expenditures | Total Sport Team Expenditures |
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2023 | $1,124,472 | 12% | $9,349,505 |
2022 | $939,259 | 10.5% | $8,926,259 |
2021 | $791,146 | 11.4% | $6,949,063 |
2020 | $987,225 | 12.2% | $8,075,546 |
2019 | $1,153,611 | 12.8% | $9,000,248 |